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Bent's Fort is featured briefly in Larry McMurty's 1985 Pulitzer Prize-winning novel Lonesome Dove, as well as in the 1989 Emmy Award-winning four-part TV miniseries adapted from the book. [citation needed] Bent's Fort in the spring of 1834 is a major setting for Terry Johnston's 1988 novel One-Eyed Dream.
Bent's Old Fort has been reconstructed by the National Park Service in the 1970s and is operated as an historic destination, with events to interpret its history. Scott Brady, known for his syndicated western television series Shotgun Slade portrayed William Bent in a 1957 episode, "The Lone Woman" of the CBS anthology series, Playhouse 90.
The Army facility was initially named Fort Flaunteroy, then Fort Wise, and then Fort Lyon. The Bent's Fort, Colorado Territory, post office operated from June 4, 1863, until December 2, 1873. [15] The Army was located at the fort until 1867 when it moved to the new Fort Lyon fort following flooding of the Arkansas River. The site was not used ...
William and Charles Bent, in partnership with Ceran St. Vrain, establish Fort William, later known as Bent's Fort, as a frontier trading post on the north bank of the Arkansas River, along the Santa Fe Trail, in what is now southeastern Colorado. [50] 1834
In 1849, William Bent blew up the remains of the interior of the fort and departed the panhandle of Texas. After the battles of Adobe Walls, buffalo hunters worked on repairing the forts as the U ...
Fort Misery Browns Park National Wildlife Refuge: Moffat: late 1830s Trading post [4] Fraeb's Post: Fort Fraeb Steamboat Springs area Routt: 1840 1841 Trading post No remains [4] El Pueblo: Fort Pueblo, Fort Nepesta, Fort Fisher, Fort Juana, Fort Spaulding, Robert Fisher's Fort Pueblo: Pueblo: 1842 1854 Trading Post No remains [6] [7] Fort ...
Bent's Fort, established along the Santa Fe Trail in 1833, was visited by Native Americans, the Spanish, and the French, among others. Enslaved people sometimes accompanied the visitors. [7] William Bent had three African American enslaved people, Charlotte and Dick Green and Andrew Green. The men handled maintenance and chores at the fort.
1845 Santa Fe Trail and native tribal lands. William Bent, a white trader from St Louis, came to the Arkansas River region towards the end of the 1820s. [8] [9] By around 1832, although possibly as late as 1834, [10] a permanent trading post called Bent's Fort, which was a substantial adobe construction capable of accommodating 200 people, [8] [11] had been built on the northern "Mountain ...